YouTuber Nabela Noor had the best response when people told her she needed to lose weight to find love — and now she's continuing her body-positive message

Nabela Noor went viral for tweeting about how anyone, regardless of size, deserves love.

Noor is a Youtuber and content creator who is always striving to represent marginalized voices, including the plus-size community.

She told INSIDER, "people are thirsty for inclusion in a time when there's so much division, so much isolation."

Despite the complicated relationship that the fashion industry has with body positivity and diversity, a rising group of bloggers and influencers are shining a light on and increasing representation of different body types. Among them is Nabela Noor.

Noor, a "plus-size" beauty, fashion, and lifestyle YouTuber, has been creating for quite some time now, so it's never a surprise when audiences engage with her personal and topical content. But even she didn't expect her most recent tweet to go viral.

"It was really fascinating to see how many people struggle with others enforcing their definitions of beautiful and their definitions of what makes someone worthy of love or marriage," Noor told INSIDER about the reactions she's gotten from the tweet. "There's so many others that can resonate with this and that's wild."

"That was my truth growing up and my whole life was just always being told that no one would marry me if I didn't lose weight, no one would marry me if I didn't have lighter skin, no one would marry me if I didn't know how to cook, blah, blah, blah," Noor told INSIDER.

Clearly, the tweet and its message resonated with such a large group of people. But it's only a small taste of Noor's empowering body positive message.

"I started making videos because I didn't see girls like me on television or in movies or in ads and magazines. So I wanted to create what I wished I could see growing up and that was just the original reason for why I started making videos. Then I began to realize that my platform could be used for social good as I grew and my platform grew, and then there was a moment where I was just like, 'I want to ... create content on the internet but I also really, really, really want to elevate voices of people in communities that I belong in and just be an ally everywhere that I can," she said.

As a "plus-size" woman, she finds it hard to understand why fashion brands aren't seeing the potential is marketing themselves towards the average woman instead of size zero models.

"Often times as a society we forget that the average size of a woman in America today is 14/16. But we're not seeing that average size represented in television, movies, advertisements, magazines — you name it ... We're not seeing the average size of 14/16 represented around us."

She added, "So naturally, growing up, I didn't feel like I was beautiful, I didn't feel like my body was beautiful, I always felt like I had to apologize to my body. I constantly reserved my happiness for when I was a certain size or when I was a certain number on a scale. At a certain point, that just kind of changed. I was like, 'This is my body, so I can either hate it or I can love it. If I hate it and I reserve my happiness for later — my life is now. Because my life is now ... I have to learn to love it.'"

Noor's channel and social media accounts are full of body positive content. But she doesn't stop just there: She's also an activist who isn't afraid to use her voice to stand up for her community.

"I've had people from all walks of life coming to show me support and love, whether that be because of my message of body positivity or whether that be because of my message of tolerance for Muslims or because I am a daughter of immigrants and I really speak up on being a first generation American," Noor told INSIDER. "So there's just so many stories that people can resonate with and that makes me happy that I can hopefully provide people with a sense of feeling they belong."

When asked about the future of the fashion and beauty industries, she went on to say, "I think a lot of people are ready. They're just ready to be seen; they're ready to be heard. People are thirsty for inclusion in a time when there's so much division, so much isolation. People just want to feel like they're seen and I feel like a lot of people when they find my channel or when they find my Instagram, they're like, 'Oh, she looks like me.' And that's not very often that you find a plus-size girl — especially a plus-size girl and woman of color — in the public eye."

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